Genetics

I mentioned genetics as a plausible explanation as to why I have a back-pain at such a young age, so I thought I should give it more attention.

My mother, and three uncles on my mothers side, all have chronic back-pain. And 3 out of 4 of these people (not including me) have disk degeneration in the L4-L5 disk… same as me!

I do think there is something to this. Are our bodies made to be weak in a specific area, which has caused this very, localized disk degeneration?

Or were we all brought up to walk the same, have the same posture, which caused this very specific disk degeneration?

I think that it is likely to be a combination of both environmental and genetics… as this is commonly the situation with physical attributes.

However, I do think that we can overcome this. AND, if we had correct posture throughout our lives we may have avoided this.